This is an analysis of the poem Ballade At Thirty-Five that begins with:
This, no song of an ingénue,
This, no ballad of innocence; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXXaC babXaXaXXbabaacaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011 01100100 00100101 101001001 0011010 00100100 00100100 11001111 10100101 101001001 10100101 11100100 11111101 11100100 10101100 1010011110 10110111 10100101 11101101 100100100 11110100 11110110 11101111 11001111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; this, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, always are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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